Kubrick or Scorsese?
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i like kubrick but they're very different directors...i think kubrick vs stone would be a more appropriate
And Kubrick would win that one too.
Kubrick because not only was a very crafty artistic director, but he was absolutely nuts. On the set of The Shining he made Shelly Duval cry at one point during film or was it Scatman Curruthers? Anyway not knocking Scorses but Kubrick wasn't always focused on one type of film.
Ask Scorsese and he will tell you it's Kubrick.
"We are all children of Cecil B Demill and Stanley Kubrick." Scorsese said in interview and that is one guy who knows his film stuff.
Personally I think they are both fantastic but for me Kubrick is the man. If you watch Full Metal Jacket now you can't see the year it was made. Do the same with say Oliver Stone's Platoon and you can tell right away it's an 80's film. Just one example of Kubricks craft meaning his work never dates.
On the other hand Scorsese is the last real auteur in American films. You have to hand it to the man.
"We are all children of Cecil B Demill and Stanley Kubrick." Scorsese said in interview and that is one guy who knows his film stuff.
Personally I think they are both fantastic but for me Kubrick is the man. If you watch Full Metal Jacket now you can't see the year it was made. Do the same with say Oliver Stone's Platoon and you can tell right away it's an 80's film. Just one example of Kubricks craft meaning his work never dates.
On the other hand Scorsese is the last real auteur in American films. You have to hand it to the man.
Scorcese. Goodfellas is one of my top five movies of all time.
Full Metal Jacket is high on my list too, but the genius of that movie came from R. Lee Ermey, and not so much the director.
Full Metal Jacket is high on my list too, but the genius of that movie came from R. Lee Ermey, and not so much the director.
I've always wondered how he got the name "Scatman".
I like both directors very much, and deciding between them is just quibbling, really. Guess I'll settle for Scorsese.
A bold dividing-line! I did like the Departed. Unbelievably, Nicholson's character dies in it.
Gangs of New York: unwatchable. I've got better ways of spending my time, like washing the dishes. But they say it got butchered by Miramax/the Weinsteins who held it in very public limbo for over a year. Remember?
Shutter Island: Sorry, thumbs-down.
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More
Cape Fear
Goodfellas
Casino: all thumbs-up.
Barry Lyndon: call me crazy, it's my favourite Kubrick.
A bold dividing-line! I did like the Departed. Unbelievably, Nicholson's character dies in it.
Gangs of New York: unwatchable. I've got better ways of spending my time, like washing the dishes. But they say it got butchered by Miramax/the Weinsteins who held it in very public limbo for over a year. Remember?
Shutter Island: Sorry, thumbs-down.
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More
Cape Fear
Goodfellas
Casino: all thumbs-up.
Barry Lyndon: call me crazy, it's my favourite Kubrick.
GregCentauro
Banned
His tan was fake.
Scorsese dominates anyone, anytime.
IMO Kubrick is clearly superior.Scorcese made some good movies but none of them compare to things like Paths of Glory or Clockwork Orange or 2001 or Spartacus.
Nope,I love it.
Even though I did like it,what would you call Eyes Wide Shut?
Sorry,but it is terribly outdated now.I just watched Platoon for the first time recently,and just the style of filmmaking felt 80's.
PlasmaTwa2
The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
Underrated.
He got his name because he practiced a type of improvized jazz singing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing
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